Earths Processes
What process breaks down rock into smaller pieces by physical forces like wind or ice?
What is mechanical (physical) weathering (examples: freeze–thaw, abrasion)?
State Newton’s Third Law in one sentence
What is for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction?
Which wave trait is bigger when the wave has more energy: amplitude or wavelength?
What is Amplitude?
What is the smallest unit of life?
What is a cell?
What force pulls things toward Earth?
What is Gravity?
Name the process that moves weathered rock and soil from one place to another.
What is Erosion?
If an object’s mass increases but the net force stays the same, what happens to its acceleration?
What is the acceleration goes down?
True or false: Sound can travel through air?
What is True?
Name the most important part of the cell and what it does (one short sentence).
What is the Nucleus — holds DNA?
Why do we have day and night?
What is Earth spins (rotates) on its axis?
What type of plate boundary forms when two plates move away from each other and new crust forms?
What is divergent boundary?
What is the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration
What is F=ma?
What happens to light when it goes from air into water?
What is it slows and bends (refracts)?
How do plants help give energy to animals?
What is plants make sugar with sunlight; animals eat plants for energy?
The Moon's gravitational pull on Earth causes the ocean waters to rise and fall in a predictable pattern twice per day. This phenomenon is called this.
What are tides?
Describe one piece of evidence (other than fossil distribution) scientists use to support past plate motions.
What is matching coastlines or magnetic striping / seafloor pattern?
In a collision between two objects, how is momentum conserved?
What is total momentum before = total momentum after; vector sum conserved if no external forces?
Give one simple example of stored energy changing to motion.
What is Stretched bow → arrow moves (elastic → kinetic) ?
What is cellular respiration? (one short sentence)
What is cells break down sugar to release energy (ATP)?
Give one simple piece of proof that Earth changed long ago.
What is rock layers or fossils show past seas or movements.
Explain how the cycling of water between atmosphere, oceans, and land is driven by the Sun and gravity (give two steps in the cycle).
What is evaporation and precipitation (or evaporation → condensation).
In a hit between two objects, what stays the same if no outside push acts?
What is Momentum.
If frequency goes up, what happens to the wavelength?
What is the Wavelength goes down. (decreases)
Which group of cells combines to form the tissue that contracts to move your arm?
What is muscle cells form muscle tissue move the body?
The Sun's core reaches temperatures of about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit, where hydrogen atoms fuse together to form helium and release enormous amounts of energy.
What is Nuclear Fusion?